Motivational Quotes

Business

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

- Oscar Wilde

Best Quotes about Business

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

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I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy